Jeannette Santos

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Jeannette Santos

Jeannette Santos

Jeannette Santos is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is a chaplain experienced in hospital and palliative care. Her specialties include grief and loss recovery, and overcoming anxiety based on the Word and healing of Jesus.

With over 40 years of marriage and experience raising five children, and with six grandchildren, her storytelling speaks to the challenges & conflicts that individuals, couples, and families of all stages in life face daily, toward hope & healing.

Specialties
Christian Spirituality, Discernment, Family, Forgiveness, Healing, Marriage, Mental Health, Motherhood, Relationships, Virtue, and Women



Lift Up Your Hearts: The Sacrament of Love

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Lift Up Your Hearts: The Sacrament of Love

What do we do when our hearts are wounded? While hearing God’s Love Story for us, women discover the key to hope in any circumstance; found in the Eucharist and Holy Mass.

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Forgiveness, Healing, Jesus, Mass, Prayer, Sacraments, Suffering, and Women

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A Letter to Women

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A Letter to Women

Imagine receiving a letter from the desk of John Paul II to your personal mailbox! This Letter to Women directed to all women is a treasured message from John Paul II on the vocation of woman and her true dignity. Learn about the feminine genius he has coined as a beautiful expression of womanhood.

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Motherhood and Women

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Angela Sealana

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Angela Sealana

Angela Sealana

From an early age, Angela knew she wanted to apply her talents in teaching and communication for God’s glory. Since 2010, she has facilitated the presentation and promotion of Pilgrim Center of Hope through new and traditional media as Media Coordinator.

Angela knows how to communicate with a wide variety of audiences, applying her professional background in marketing and communications for both non-profit ministries and for-profit businesses. She holds a B.A. in English communication arts, with concentrations in marketing and theology from St. Mary’s University, and has over a decade of experience as an evangelizing catechist for ages 8 through 80+.

After discerning a possible call to religious life, she was surprised by a vocation to marriage. When she is not spending time with her husband and friends, Angela enjoys volunteering with projects promoting dialogue through pop culture.

Specialties
Christian Spirituality, Discernment, Healing, Media & Faith, Prayer, Sacred Art, Saints, Scripture, Suffering, Vocation, and Women



Mary Jane Fox

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Mary Jane Fox

Mary Jane Fox

Mary Jane Fox and her husband had a re-awakening of their Catholic faith in the 1980s. While on a trip through the Holy Land, they were directed by a local priest to take a silent walk along the Sea of Galilee. There, Jesus unmistakably spoke to them each.

In September 1986, Tom and Mary Jane Fox left their respective careers in hotel management and the travel industry to work full-time for St. Matthew Catholic Church. For the first seven years, their main ministry was door-to-door home visitation; in the first few years, they visited over 10,000 families. They also helped establish other outreach ministries at St. Matthew.

In 1992, the Foxes led a group of pilgrims in the Holy Land. After escorting them to the airport, they returned to Jerusalem to spend two weeks in a hermitage in the Garden of Gethsemane. In those two weeks of prayer, they discerned that God wanted them to develop a Catholic evangelization ministry. With the help of friends and benefactors, Pilgrim Center of Hope was founded in June of 1993.

Tom was ordained to the permanent Diaconate in August 1988. They became Oblates of the Congregation of St. John in 1991.

Tom and Mary Jane’s mission has included travel to parishes in California, Kansas, Louisiana, Mexico, and within Texas to give presentations on their ministry experiences, Parish Missions and on Door-to-Door Home Visitation Outreach. In June 1989 and June 1990, they assisted the pastor of St. Ignatius Parish in Belize City, Belize, in a parish-wide evangelization effort.

Their ministry of pilgrimages has led them to Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Eygpt, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and Turkey. Their speciality (and dearest to their hearts) is the Holy Land, having traveled there more than 54 times since 1986.

Their ministry work has been featured in five nation-wide Catholic periodicals and on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) show Living His Life Abundantly in 1995 on the video I Am the Bread of Life, produced by Stepstone Productions, Inc. In February 2008, they received the Catholic Television of San Antonio (CTSA) Leadership Award. In March 2011, they received Guadalupe Radio Network‘s ’Pescadores de Hombres‘ (Fishers of Men) Award. They were invested into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre in October of 2011. In October 2012, they received the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation’s “Living Stones Award” on behalf of Pilgrim Center of Hope.

“The call we received from the Lord to serve in the field of Catholic evangelization has been a most enlightening, inspirational and challenging vocation!”

Specialties
Angels, Christian Spirituality, Jesus, Pilgrimage, Practicing Faith, Prayer, Sacred Art, Saints, Virgin Mary, and Women



Surrender, Submit & Obey: Three Little Ways to Happiness

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Surrender, Submit & Obey: Three Little Ways to Happiness

How can women be faithful Catholics and happy when our world teaches that the only way to women’s fulfillment is to be self-reliant, rebellious and domineering?

Discover how following God’s will through the treasure of the Catholic faith is the true path to a woman’s happiness and the woman she is created to be.

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Practicing Faith and Women

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On a Journey with Martha and Mary; How Our Personalities Are No Obstacle to God

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On a Journey with Martha and Mary; How Our Personalities Are No Obstacle to God

Many women identify with Martha, burdened with much serving, and wonder how we can complete all the tasks of life and grow in holiness. Mary, chose the better part, but soon struggled to trust when Jesus did not meet her expectations.

Journey with Martha and Mary and discover how our personalities are the very way God draws us closer to him and his abundant life.

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Practicing Faith, Scripture, and Women

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Mary and the Modern Woman; Who is the Blessed Mother and Why Should I Care?

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Mary and the Modern Woman; Who is the Blessed Mother and Why Should I Care?

Many women, yes Catholic women, do not enjoy a relationship with our Blessed Mother Mary and do not know why they should.

Discover the reasons this is so, why cultivating a relationship with Mary draws us closer to God and into the women we desire to be, and why living as a daughter of Mary is what God desires for women in this day and time.

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Virgin Mary and Women

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Nan Balfour

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Nan Balfour

Nan Balfour

Nan Balfour is a grateful Catholic whose greatest desire is to make our Lord Jesus more loved. She seeks to accomplish this through her vocation to womanhood, marriage, motherhood and as a writer, speaker and events coordinator for Pilgrim Center of Hope.

Specialties
Practicing Faith, Saints, Virgin Mary, and Women



Veiling: A Devotion of Love and Respect to Our Lord Jesus Christ

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Veiling: A Devotion of Love and Respect to Our Lord Jesus Christ

Hear a personal journey of grace, where God called Mandi-Bre to have radical boldness through a simple devotion, and where she was brought to a place of surrender and a closeness to God like never before.

Learn the scriptural reasoning behind, and common myths about veiling; and recognizing the past hurts of a generation where veiling was sometimes viewed as burdensome and oppressive. Mandi-Bre brings it all together to help us better understand what the importance of the veil is, and why so many women are going back to wearing the chapel veil.

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Sacramentals and Women

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